John Raynard

John Louis Raynard (1862-1899) was a Canadian-American poacher. In 1899, he and Kyle MacTavish were hired by the US government to massacre the buffalo of the Great Plains and frame their extinction on the Native Americans, but Charles Smith and Arthur Morgan tracked them down while investigating the murder of the buffalo. An enraged Smith shot MacTavish dead, while Morgan choked Raynard to death after he confessed the government's plot and begged for mercy on account of his children.